Equipment (Old)
Any equipment listed in any Shadowrun sourcebook is generally permissible to purchase.
Strike Rules
Tools
Some Skills require tools to use properly. If you don’t have any tools, you can’t attempt the task. If you have makeshift tools only, you may attempt it with Disadvantage. This may depend on the complexity of the task.
Your character starts play with appropriate tools for their starting Skills. These may be lost as a result of Twists. When you learn a new Skill you do not automatically get tools—you must acquire them in play.
Costs
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| Roll | Cheap | Same Level | Expensive |
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| 6 | Success + Bonus | Success + Bonus | Success |
| 5 | Success + Bonus | Success | Success + Cost |
| 4 | Success | Success + Cost | Success + 2 Costs |
| 3 | Success | Success + 2 Costs | Twist |
| 2 | Success + Cost | Twist | Twist + Flaw |
| 1 | Success + 2 Costs | Twist + Flaw | Twist + Flaw |
If you try to buy something two levels or more below yours, you can. You do not need to roll. You cannot use your Wealth to buy something two or more levels above yours. If you want to make that sort of purchase, you need to get a loan, find a wealthy patron, or take further measures to be able to do so. To purchase anything else, use the above table to determine the results. Items below your Wealth are labeled “cheap” and items above your Wealth are labeled “expensive.”
There is a Condition that typically goes with Wealth: Short. When you’re Short, you act as though you were one Wealth tier lower. When you get two Costs, one of them is always a Flaw, while the other is either that you are Short or that you owe someone a Favor. The GM will decide which.
Often when you roll a Twist, the GM will ask you if you would rather do without the item in question, or “break the bank” to pay for it. A worse Condition happens when you “break the bank”: being Broke. It’s the same as being Short, but is much harder to recover from. Being Broke does not mean you have no money at all, just much less than you were used to having.
If you get the Short Condition twice, nothing changes. Simply note it down. The third time, however, automatically “breaks the bank” and Short upgrades to Broke. Later on, if you manage to get Short and Broke at the same time, they combine to cause you to treat your Wealth as two levels below normal. Multiple instances of Broke compound too. Effectively, being Broke is the same as a permanent reduction in your Wealth, but with the opportunity to work your way out of it. This is rough, but unlike other Conditions, the GM cannot simply give it to you. You choose it or else earn it by getting three Shorts.
You recover from being Short by working your job and being frugal for a week, or any equivalent way of making money. You can also recover by spending a cash parcel (see below) equal to the Wealth tier you are recovering to. To recover from Broke you need to work your job and live frugally for a year or equivalent, or spend a cash parcel one level above the one you are recovering to.
Shadowrun Equipment
An Always available item can be purchased, owned, and transported by anyone. A check to find such an item will only be required in unusual circumstances, such as trying to find a fresh-baked baguette at midnight in the barrens.
A Restricted availability item requires either a valid SIN or the use of the black market to purchase. These items are not strongly regulated, but are sufficiently restricted that they can't legally be bought with cash. A roll is likely required to find these items on the black market, but with Twists and Costs representing not necessarily a failure to find the item, but a cost, delay, flaw, increase in price, or other negative consequence. Restrictions on possession are unlikely to be enforced unless secondary to other legal or security interaction.
A Controlled item is highly restricted and requires licenses, permits, or other credentials attached to a valid SIN for purchase, possession, and transport. A basic fake SIN is insufficient to buy these items, and a roll is almost certainly required to find them on the black market, likely at disadvantage. Open possession of such items in a high-security area is likely to draw one or more of personal and electronic attention.
Gear
| Type | Cost | Availability | Special |
| Commlink | 0 | Always | A portable universal computation and communications device. |
| Credstick | 0 | Always | Generic secure data store. Can act as a passport, keyring, credit card, checkbook, wallet, and business card. Some are locked using passcodes or biometrics. |
| Simrig | 3 | Restricted | A tight-fitting cap contain numerous electrodes allowing playback and limited recording of simsense signals. |
| Subvocal Mic | 0 | Restricted | Allows the wearer to record sound subvocally, making them harder to hear. |
| Type | Cost | Availability | Special |
| Bug Scanner | 2 | Restricted | Detects recording equipment. May be unable to detect sufficiently sophisticated recording setups, but is capable of detecting temporary recording setups. |
| Laser Microphone | 2 | Restricted | Used to pull sound off a solid obect, like a windowpane. |
| Micro-Recorder | 1 | Restricted | Can record image, sound, and limited trid for up to a week in a device the size of a quarter. |
| Shotgun Microphone | 2 | Restricted | Used to listen in on distant conversations. |
| EM Tool | 2 | Restricted | A general-purpose tool for analyzing and interacting with electromagnetic signals. |
| Type | Cost | Availability | Special |
| Biometric Scanners | 1 | Restricted | Fingerprint scanners, retinal readers, voice and gait analyzers, DNA testers, and more. |
| Chem Sniffer | 2-3 | Restricted | Detects airborne molecules. Can be set to alert on detection of particular categories of substances, such as explosives or ammunition propellant. |
| Cybermod Manacles | 2 | Restricted | Restraints wrists and ankles, with a mechanism to exert agonizing pressure on tendons and bones if cybermods are extended from the restrained area. |
| Cyberware Scanner | 2 | Restricted | A sonic/magnetic scanning wand that detects and identifies cyberware. |
| Headjammer | 2 | Restricted | A locking headset that jams transmission and reception for implanted radio devices. |
| Jackstopper | 0 | Restricted | A plastic insert with a quick-bonding epoxy to fill and plug a cyberjack. |
| MADS | 2 | Restricted | Magnetic Anomaly Detectors are used to detect weapons and concentrations of metal. They come in hand-held wand-type designs and free-standing or architecturally-integrated doorway systems. |
| PANICBUTTON™ | 1 | Always | A keychain-sized device providing covert emergency alert and tracking with a chosen security service. |
| Skilltwitchers | 1 | Restricted | Sends a jamming signal into skillwire implants to disrupt all mental and physical activity. |
| Ultrasound Detector | 0 | Restricted | Detects the use of ultrasound, such as used with ultrasonic motion sensor systems and ultrasonic sight. |
| Ultrasound Spoofer | 2 | Controlled | In addition to detecting ultrasound fields, can attempt to spoof the ultrasound sensor. |
| Type | Cost | Availability | Special |
| Chemsuit | 1 | Always | A slick and impermeable set of booted coveralls, hooded poncho, and mittens. The hood is transparent, or mirrored for privacy, and fitted with an air filter. Designer versions are used in major cities on days with hard rain. |
| Climbing Gear | 1 | Always | Everything need to climb, including harnesses, rope, gloves, carabiners, crampons, pitons, and so forth. |
| Climbing Gear (Stealthed) | 1 | Restricted | Climbing gear with the pitons and ropes that can be electronically triggered to dissolve to a fine powder. |
| Grapple Gun | 1 | Restricted | Can shoot a grappling hook more than 50 meters. Can use stealthed rope. |
| Micro-Flare Launcher | 0 | Always | This pen-size flare launcher can shoot color-adjustable flares more than 200 meters. The flares can illuminate a city block. |
| Respirator | 1 | Always | A small (20 x 10 cm) oxygen cylinder connected to a full or partial face mask provides several hours of air. |
| Survival Kit | 1 | Always | A rugged bag containing basic survival gear. |
| TYPE | COST | AVAILABILITY |
Weapons
Characters are assumed to start the game with standard shadowrunner weapons appropriate to their skills and combat build. Characters can buy special weapons that have advantages (e.g., narrative benefits, mechanical benefits, combat benefits) and/or flaws.
| Type | Cost | Legality | Availability | Special |
| Pro gear | 1 | Restricted | Uncommon | Quality melee weapons used by security professionals. Shadowrunner starting gear. |
| Drek | 1 | Restricted | Common | Second-hand weapons and weapons that weren't that good even when it was new. Comes with at least one downside. |
| Specific weapons | ||||
| Monofilament whip | 2 | Forbidden | Rare | Terrifying. Deadly. Iconic. For an Action Point, you can XXX. When gaining a Strike for using this weapon, gain an additional Strike. Requires an appropriate Skill. |
Example downsides:
- Flaws: heavy, cumbersome, inconvenient
- Breakable (destroyed one-sixth of times used)
Magical Goods
| Type | Cost | Legality | Availability | Special |
| Combat Spells | 1 | Restricted | Rare | Combat spell list |
| Detection Spells | 1 | Restricted | Uncommon | Detection spell list |
| Health Spells | 1 | Restricted | Uncommon | Health spell list |
| Illusion Spells | 1 | Restricted | Rare | Illusion spell list |
| Manipulation Spells | 1 | Restricted | Rare | Manipulation spell list |
| Ritual | 1 | Restricted | Rare | Ritual list |
Combat Spells
All combat spells require support in the Tactical Combat build of the character.
- Acid Stream
- Toxic Wave
- Punch
- Clout
- Blast
- Death Touch
- Manabolt
- Manaball
- Flamethrower
- Fireball
- Lightning Bolt
- Ball Lightning
- Shatter
- Powerbolt
- Powerball
- Knockout
- Stunbolt
- Stunball
Detection Spells
- Analyze Device
- Analyze Magic
- Analyze Truth
- Clairaudience
- Clairvoyance
- Combat Sense
- Detect Enemies
- Detect Enemies, Extended
- Detect Individual
- Detect Life
- Detect Life, Extended
- Detect [Life Form]
- Detect [Life Form], Extended
- Detect Magic
- Detect Magic, Extended
- Detect [Object]
- Mindlink
- Mind Probe
Health Spells
- Antidote
- Cure Disease
- Decrease [Attribute]
- Detox
- Heal (Tactical Combat build only)
- Increase [Attribute]
- Increase Reflexes
- Oxygenate
- Prophylaxis
- Resist Pain
- Stabilize
Illusion Spells
- Agony
- Mass Agony
- Bugs
- Swarm
- Confusion
- Mass Confusion
- Chaos
- Chaotic World
- Entertainment
- Trid Entertainment
- Invisibility
- Improved Invisibility
- Mask
- Physical Mask
- Phantasm
- Trid Phantasm
- Hush
- Silence
- Stealth
Manipulation Spells
- Animate
- Mass Animate
- Armor (Tactical Combat build only)
- Control Actions
- Mob Control
- Control Thoughts
- Mob Mind
- Fling
- Ice Sheet
- Ignite
- Influence
- Levitate
- Light
- Magic Fingers
- Mana Barrier
- Physical Barrier
- Poltergeist
- Shadow
Rituals
- Curse
- Prodigal Spell
- Remote Sensing
- Ward
- Circle of Protection
- Circle of Healing
- Renascence
- Watcher
- Homunculus